Sentara Healthcare announces a merger with North Carolina hospital chain Cone… The Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail confirms its first inmate cases of COVID-19… The new chairman of Staunton’s school board made history last month, and we have a profile….

The new chairman of Staunton City’s school board made history last month. WMRA’s Mike Tripp has this profile of Kenneth Venable.

Waynesboro schools also go online… Luray’s mayor apologizes, but is still censured by town council, for a racist Facebook post… A team of CDC scientists addresses the COVID-19 outbreak at the detention center in Farmville… As local universities get set to welcome waves of students back to campus, more than 1300 college faculty and staff have signed a petition to be included in pandemic-related decisions on campus….

Universities and colleges continue to tweak and fine tune their re-opening plans as the days count down to the start of fall semester classes. And some faculty want more say in re-opening in the midst of this pandemic. WMRA ’ s Bridget Manley reports.

After trying to set up some in-person instruction for the fall, Staunton city schools decide to go all-online, over COVID-19 concerns… Housing authorities in Harrisonburg, Charlottesville and elsewhere will get tens of thousands of dollars in housing aid… In the next installment of Mental Health Matters , we explore how police approach emergencies that may involve people with mental illness….

One of the consistent demands coming out of this summer's protests is that police departments across the country change the way they interact with mental health crises in the community. And police have their own mental health to protect in a stressful job. In the next installment of WMRA’s Mental Health Matters series, Randi B. Hagi reports.

Less than a week after an offensive Facebook post by the mayor, hundreds gather in Luray to call for him to step down… The state Supreme Court freezes all evictions for not paying rent for another month… After the deadly white supremacist rally of August 2017, a Charlottesville foundation established a special fund to help heal the community, and we talk with the foundation’s CEO…. *The first posting of today's Daily contained an error. The Virginia election website is elections.virginia.gov .

Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Luray on Saturday calling for the mayor's resignation after he shared a racist post on Facebook. WMRA’s Calvin Pynn reports.

In 2017, after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, a special fund was established by the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation . They released a report detailing how the Heal Charlottesville Fund was able to help the community. WMRA’s Chris Boros spoke with the foundation’s CEO Brennan Gould and Chris asked her to describe how the fund got started. Brennan Gould: The Heal Charlottesville Fund was a fund that was initially initiated immediately in the aftermath of the

Albemarle County's confederate soldier statue will come down next month… Virginia's watchdog agency says the state Parole Board and its former chairwoman violated state law in the release of a man who killed a cop… With so many of us now working from home, one business professor at UVa says managers should avoid the temptation to use new technology to track their employees’ every move….